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TVA dirs Curtis and Paty charge AEC ignores TVA judgment on Dixon-Yates contract, lr to Hughes; say AEC let TVA see only contract excerpts; charge Nichols disparages TVA performance under existing contracts
Stevens seen staying in post despite criticism; silent on repts; McCarthy, Adams silent
bill signed for 12,000 units for personnel and families
com takes testimony on charges that McCarthy abused Sen colleagues and Zwicker; rejects Williams demand that Johnson confirm or deny Post article; McCarthy comments to newsmen on issue; com rejects Williams effort to strike testimony on contempt charge; rejects view that Gillette subcom lacked legality for probe; AP newsman B L Livingstone testifies that McCarthy said in June that 'they should get a man with a net' to take Flanders to 'a good quiet place'; AP newsman J W Hall Jr testifies that McCarthy said to him of Sen Hendrickson that he was 'a living miracle . . . with neither brains nor guts'; Chadwick offers in evidence lrs by McCarthy, Gillette and Hennings on McCarthy's refusal to appear before subcom; com brings out in McCarthy's favor that 1 wire from Hennings was never sent to McCarthy; Chadwick introduces McCarthy lrs to Hennings and Hayden to document 'abuses' against them; introduces material on charge that McCarthy abused Zwicker; Flanders submits documentation of his charges; com studies Mundt subcom repts on McCarthy-Army dispute; Watkins says scope of charges may be enlarged as result
French officials minimize change
1954Billi Gordon, American neuroscientist, author, and actor. (died 2018)[†]
Wilbert Anthony Gordon Jr., better known as Billi Gordon, was an American author, television writer, neuroscientist, actor and model.
1954Gai Waterhouse, Scottish-Australian horse trainer and businesswoman[†]
Gabriel Marie "Gai" Waterhouse is an Australian horse trainer and businesswoman. The daughter of Tommy J. Smith, a leading trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses, Waterhouse was born and raised in Sydney. After graduating from the University of New South Wales, she worked as an actor for a time, appearing in both Australian and English television series. Having worked under her father for a period of 15 years, Waterhouse was granted an Australian Jockey Club (AJC) licence in 1992, and trained her first Group One winner later that year.
1954Andrej Babiš, Czech politician, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic[†]
Andrej Babiš is a Czech billionaire businessman and politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from 2017 to 2021. He previously served as Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister from 2014 to 2017. Babiš is the founding leader of the political party ANO, a position he has held since 2012.
1954Franz Leopold Neumann, German lawyer and political scientist (born 1900)[†]
Franz Leopold Neumann was a German political activist, Western Marxist theorist and labor lawyer, who became a political scientist in exile and is best known for his theoretical analyses of Nazism. He studied in Germany and the United Kingdom, and spent the last phase of his career in the United States, where he worked for the Office of Strategic Services from 1943 to 1945. During the Second World War, Neumann spied for the Soviet Union under the code-name "Ruff". Together with Ernst Fraenkel and Arnold Bergstraesser, Neumann is considered to be among the founders of modern political science in the Federal Republic of Germany.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]